Improvement in the manufacture of soap



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J. K. VAUGHAN AND EVAN HENRY EVERMAN OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY,

PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification forming, part of Letters PatentNo. 4,404, dated March 7,1846.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J A0013 KEEN VAUGHAN and EVAN HENRY EVERMAN, in thecounty of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,have discovered andproduced a new and useful Improveinent in Manufactured Soaps, by whichthe quantity is greatly increased'and the quality improved; and we dohereby declare that the following is a full and exact description.

The specified quantity of ingredients for compounding three thousandpounds of improved soap are as follows, viz: best yellow soaps, ninehundred pounds; water, two thousand five hundred pounds; horas sodze, orcommon borax, seventy-five pounds; sodae murias, or common salt, thirtyseven and one-half pounds; glue, best manufactured, fifteen pounds;palm-oil, ten pounds.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our invention, wewill describe the operation, viz: Dissolve the soap in the water by slowboiling, then add the glue in a dissolved state, and the pahnoil, andcontinue the boiling and-stirring until brought to a boil, then add theborax and salt, leave the mixture to a boil a few minutes, when it isfinished, and may be poured into molds to 0001.

What we claim as ourinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The application and addition to a given quantity of soap, of water,borax, salt, glue, and palm-oil, which will increase the quantity andimprove the quality of the soap used, as herein described.

JACOB KEEN VAUGHAN. EVAN HENRY EVERMAN.

